A Beautiful George III Period Lead Garden Ornament Cast as a Bacchanalian Putto sub-Curios If not for the mantelpiece

If not for the mantelpiece then

and black jet beading was the fashionable jewelry of the decade

this is an interior enhancing religious piece of work of good provenance and its shape only heightens its decorative qualities

the wholes designed to be portable

A Beautiful George III Period Lead Garden Ornament Cast as a Bacchanalian Putto sub-Curios If not for the mantelpieceOrigin: English Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 1820 Height: 17. 25 inches Width: 9 inches Depth: 8 inches Weight: 14. 3 KGS (all approx and at maximum) The weighty baroque style George III period lead garden ornament, in the form of a Bacchanalian cherub wearing a grape vine wreath in swathed robes, perched on a log with one hand raised to the face, the other open palmed holding a bunch of grapes,